The Charles Dickens Letters Project

To RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES,1 [1840-41] 

Facsimile (envelope only) in Dreweatts & Bloomsbury online catalogue, Dec 2016.

Date: handwriting and signature suggest 1840-41.

Address: Paid | Richard M. Milnes Esquire MP. | "     "2 | 26 Pall Mall

• 1. Richard Monckton Milnes, first Baron Houghton (1809-85; Dictionary of National Biography), writer and politician; elected Conservative MP 1837 (later a Liberal). He and CD were elected to the Athenaeum Club at the same time (June 1838), and were on cordial terms from 1840 until CD's death. Lived at 26 Pall Mall from 1837 (when he first came to London) until 1851, at which time he married Annabel Crewe, younger daughter of the second Baron Crewe, and moved out of his Pall Mall rooms before taking up residence at 16 Upper Brook Street in spring 1852; see T. Wemyss Reid, Life, Letters, and Friendships of Richard Monckton Milnes, First Lord Houghton (New York: Cassell, 1891).
• 2. The ditto marks were a shorthand occasionally used by CD to indicate the address as it would appear on the envelope. See To James Emerson Tennent, 3 June 1837.